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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter L

Line Dance

Dance
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A choreographed dance performed by people in rows facing the same direction. It can suggest coordination, repetition, and public participation.

Detailed Definition
Line dance is a form of social dance in which participants perform the same sequence of steps in rows or lines, generally without needing a fixed partner. It appears in many settings, from country-western halls to weddings and contemporary clubs. In poetry, a line dance can symbolize conformity, solidarity, or the comfort of learning a shared pattern. Its repeated turns and synchronized steps may echo refrains, metrical regularity, or ritual habits. A poet can also use it ironically, showing an individual trying to keep pace with a group.
Example
Example in poetry:
The poem’s line of workers moves like a line dance, each person repeating the same practiced motion; Use line dance to show community without requiring partners, as strangers learn the steps together; A repeated syntactic pattern can imitate a line dance, with each line stepping forward and back in the same shape; The speaker refuses the line dance, using that refusal to express discomfort with social conformity
Additional Notes
A line dance emphasizes synchronized individual bodies rather than paired intimacy. In poetry, repeated steps may mirror refrains, routines, conformity, or the pleasure of joining a public collective; compare chorus, procession, and ritual.
Also Known As
Line Dancing
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